Scholarship for Social Change
The Scholars Program of Carnegie Corporation of New York helps men and women of vision explore issues of critical importance to our ever-changing global society.

Homeland Security and Privacy
An essay by Ellen Alderman, a noted writer on privacy issues, exploring the tension between homeland security concerns and Americans’ right to privacy.

Also: Privacy In The Information Age

Also: Studying Ways To Protect Privacy
In An Era Of Terrorism

M.L. Luhanga : An Interview
Professor M.L. Luhanga is the vice chancellor of the University of Dar es Salaam; in this interview, he discusses the role of his university in the national life of Tanzania and the transformation that his institution has undergone in recent years.

Also: Carnegie Corporation Holds A Journalism Forum

Foundation Roundup
A quick snapshot of initiatives supported by foundations around the country that include training for Africa’s growing pool of women journalists, practical guidance for potential grantmakers and school readiness programs for vulnerable children.

Also: New Books

The BackPage
Knowledge and its Returns

by Stephen R. Graubard
Stephen Graubard, the former editor of Daedalus, suggests how knowledge and scholarship may be the real cornerstones of not only national but also global security.

Carnegie Corporation In Africa
Andrew Carnegie founded Carnegie Corporation under an act of the New York State Legislature in November, 1911. He specified that the income from his initial capital gift of $25 million was to be used “to promote the advancement and diffusion of knowledge and understanding among the people of the United States.” For some years, Carnegie had also been making gifts for specific purposes in other countries, but now found that the terms of the Corporation’s charter would not allow him to make any gifts from this trust outside the United States.

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Intermediate and Adolescent Literacy: The State of Research and Practice
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Interview with Andrés Henríquez, program officer in Carnegie Corporation's Education Division